U+C60F "옏" Hangul Syllable Yed Unicode Character
U+C60F "옏" Hangul Syllable Yed is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used primarily for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a silent placeholder or null initial in Korean phonology), the medial vowel "ㅖ" (ye), and the final consonant "ㄷ" (d), resulting in the sound "yed." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet's initial, medial, and final letters, and it is typically displayed in digital text as a single, square-shaped glyph. Its usage is standard in Korean typography and text processing, appearing in words where the sound "yed" occurs, such as in certain verb conjugations or literary contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C60F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yed |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "예" U+C608 Hangul Syllable Ye "ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 옏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 옏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC60F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C60F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc60f |